Here’s a page of basic left hand rhythms based around a Baiao rhythm (say bye-yo or bye-yohn). You could just use Syncopation for this, but I like starting with rhythms connected to the ostinato somehow— […]
Tri pa let
Related to my late forays into different systems of counting: in an online conversation, someone asked about counting 16th notes within an 8th note triplet, specifically a triplet-rate hemiola: Generally, people count 8th note triplets: […]
Subtractive method: one practice approach
A lot of commitments right now, and posting will continue to be light through next weekend. Congratulations to Justin in Omaha for getting the 22″ Extra Special Janavar “Emilia”— there is now one of those […]
Surveying styles of drum notation
I was recently critiqued on my notation style, by someone who knows their stuff— who also knows their stuff— and I got paranoid that I was writing in a stupid way, so I went to […]
Daily best music in the world: Moon Germs
I have some commitments out of town right the next couple of weeks, and will be posting very lightly, so here’s a record I listen to a lot in college, that I need to get […]
Listening to Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane
Some notes on the record Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane. I’ve been listening to Monk’s Carnegie Hall record a lot this week, let’s get into this one. I never owned it, and haven’t listened to […]
RIP Teresa Nervosa
Photo from King Coffey’s twitter feed: “Teresa Taylor, seen here in attack mode. My favorite drummer of all time. My mentor, my friend, my sister from another mister.” Butthole Surfers drummer Theresa Taylor, aka Teresa Nervosa […]
Two handed brush variations for fast tempos
UPDATE: I added some video of me practicing this. I’ve been practicing my fast tempos lately, both with sticks and brushes. I’m talking about jazz, tempos above ~290 bpm. I haven’t had to do a […]
Reed tweak: quasi-right hand lead
I really do try to practice when I practice, not just do writing sessions for the blog. But these things just come up. This is yet another small change to the straight-8th right hand lead […]
Solo transcription: Joey Baron – Goldfish
Joey Baron’s solo over a 7/4 vamp on Goldfish, from Dave Douglas’s 1997 album Stargazer, to which I’m listening a lot this week. There’s not a ton of drumistic content to it, it’s more of […]